My TF5800PVRt (or That Bloody Thing, as i prefer to call it) has developed a new fault where it frequently loses all the channels and, when I come to use it, i get no further than the Installation menu and have to scan for channels again - it also stops recording. I've not been using it a lot, as I got fed up with the paltyr 8 or so channels I can get on Freeview on our repeater and now usually using Freesat . But it would be nice if it did work sometimes. Any idea?

My TF5800PVRt (or That Bloody Thing, as i prefer to call it) has developed a new fault where it frequently loses all the channels and, when I come to use it, i get no further than the Installation menu and have to scan for channels again - it also stops recording. I've not been using it a lot, as I got fed up with the paltyr 8 or so channels I can get on Freeview on our repeater and now usually using Freesat . But it would be nice if it did work sometimes. Any idea?

How are you scanning for channels?
I suspect, because you have a relay, that you are auto scanning in an area where the signal from the surrounding main transmitters can be found on some days and not others. You may have to manually scan for only the MUXs from the relay.

I suspect, because you have a relay, that you are auto scanning in an area where the signal from the surrounding main transmitters can be found on some days and not others. You may have to manually scan for only the MUXs from the relay.

Don't think that would cause the problem - it doesn't forget channels just because there is no signal. You would need to do a Factory Reset to get rid of them. PSU problems or dying flash memory sounds a more likely cause to me.

Latest news. This is my second Toppy - new 2 years ago, it stopped behaving and I was convinced it was the hard drive (don't ask me why now), but the technical people claimed it was nothing to do with them, so I swapped the hard drive from the 1st one and it has worked fine since then. Now have this problem. Today, I found it wouldn't even scan for channels and was very noisy, so did a factory reset and was able to scan for channels, but still noisy and seems to be vibrating (don't know how much it NORMALLY vibrates).

if i'd known I' d have to become a full-time technician, I d not have bothered with it!